Abstract
In this Perspective, a group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies’ research funding.
Highlights
A decisive step towards the realisation of full Open Access needs to be taken Researchers and research funders have a collective duty of care for the science system as a whole
Driven by our duty of care for the proper functioning of the science system, we have developed Plan S whereby research funders will mandate that access to research publications that are generated through research grants that they allocate, must be fully and immediately open and cannot be monetised in any way (Box 1)
Plan S was initiated by the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission and further developed by the President of Science Europe and by a group of Heads of national funding organisations
Summary
Provenance: Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed. This article is being published simultaneously in PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, and Frontiers in Neuroscience
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